Laura and I have recently launched a new site called the FunPlace Database! This is a brand new resource designed by parents FOR parents to make it easy to find fun places to take your kids. We all need to get out of the house most days, but sometimes it’s just difficult to find places to take them! To celebrate the launch of the site, we’re having a great...

Jack has learned a lot this month. He can write his name pretty well and is slowly working on mastering letters, numbers, coloring in the lines, etc. He has a chalk board that has been helpful to practice on, and sometimes he gets in David’s crib to write on his chalk board, so he can do it without being attacked! We have a US state puzzle that I have avoided...

Jack had a little altercation with a sidewalk. The sidewalk won this round, but Jack left his mark on it by bleeding copiously all over it. It was his first nosebleed, and he took it like a man. I was proud of him for not getting too upset by the whole thing. I loved this shirt on Jack. It’s been fun pulling out the 18 month clothes for David and remembering...

What is it about putting tennis shoes on a kid this age that makes them look so big? David is such a little GUY now- baby days are gone for good. He’s such an easy-going little guy in many ways. He’s been waking up every morning around 5:30am. It’s the same routing every morning: I go into the bedroom, he says “gi ooooouuuutt!”, I say...